Manna Meal Help Needed!! Holy Trinity Parish will be hosting the Community Manna Meal on Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at First United Methodist Church. The parish will be providing the meal, volunteers and prizes for bingo. If you are able to assist with any of the following please call or e-mail Hiedi at the parish office: 955-6077 or hiedit@fdcatholic.com 2-3 individuals to prepare mashed potatoes and pork loin for 75 people – able to utilize Corpus Christi Center kitchen (needs to be completed by 4pm day of) 5 individuals to prepare, serve and clean up (4pm -7pm) Dinner rolls – 8 dozen dinner rolls Green beans – 4 #10 cans (large restaurant size) Desserts – 8 dozen servings in total (cake, pie, cookies, bars)

New Church Update: Msgr. McCoy asked that it be shared on social media today that Reinhart Glass, of Winon, MN, is currently at Sacred Heart Church taking out a portion of the rosette window and a couple of the upper story windows above the choir loft. Reinhart Glass is taking these out so as to begin the work needed to create framing with the correct dimensions. It is our hope to utilize the upper story windows, along with the rosette windows in the new Holy Trinity Church.

We are excited to share that a Children’s Rosary prayer group is forming at our parish. This prayer group allows participation for children in kindergarten through 8th grade to come together to pray the Rosary. Adults are welcome and encouraged to come to the Children’s Rosary. Meetings will be held on the first Saturday of the month at 1:00 PM in St. Theresa’s Chapel at Sacred Heart. No prior knowledge of the Rosary is needed and rosaries and prayer books will be provided. Hope you can join us. If you have questions please contact Ada Utley at (515) 408-3425 or grezbe@yahoo.com.

We have gone live with Ministry Scheduler Pro, our liturgical ministry scheduling program! An introductory email was sent on Aug 10 to all liturgical ministers whose email addresses we have in our database. Please note that the MSP program is scheduling only Corpus Christi Masses for now and not Sacred Heart Masses; however, ALL liturgical ministers, regardless of location, will be able to make changes to their profile (address, phone, email). This is new to us as well as to you so please bear with us as we work through the phases of learning and implementing this program. This is a learning process which we will go through together, so thank you for your patience and forbearance! Please call the parish office, 955-6077, with any questions you have at this point. Thank you!

Gospel Reading: MT 13:10-17 As a toddler, you used your tactile sense to understand what things felt like and tasted like in order to understand the world around you. You didn’t know that your finger was called a finger, or your toes were called your toes, but I bet you knew how they tasted and what they felt like and eventually you learned that when you bite down on either of them … it was not a pleasant feeling. If we approach today’s Gospel with the same child-like curiosity it makes sense. read more by clicking for full article....

Please join us on Saturday, August 18th from 4:15 (Mass) to 9pm and we celebrate summer and our Catholic campus! There will be a free will offering dinner (pork burgers, hot dogs, chips and cookies). Beer and wine will be available for purchase. There will be activities for all ages, a DJ for street dancing and a dunk tank! The dunk tank will run from 7-8:00 p.m. with Fr. Patrick, Deacon Ross and Nancy Richman taking turns. Monies raised from the dunk tank will go to the parish food pantry! Don't miss out.... sure to be a good time!

Our follower is asking: I have heard that one of our past leaders, priest, bishop, cardinal, pope are on record saying that as a catholic we cannot support a political candidate that is not pro life. Can you tell me who that was and what was said and what the consequences of that was said to be? Fr. Patrick offers an answer to this, not so easy, question.

What does our Catholic faith say about the use of social media? I’m sure it is like most vices, all good in moderation and use responsibly. But as far as promoting the faith goes. Are we called and required to evangelize by sharing our faith and values, lifestyle and Christian joy on these platforms?